The spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field

Details The spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field The spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field

1995-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506044v1

Class.Quant.Grav.13:497-512,1996

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

23 pages, 16 figures, uuencoded gzipped postscript This version omits 2 pages of figures. This file, the two pages of figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/13/3/014

We report on a numerical study of the spherically symmetric collapse of a self-gravitating massless scalar field. Earlier results of Choptuik(1992, 1994) are confirmed. The field either disperses to infinity or collapses to a black hole, depending on the strength of the initial data. For evolutions where the strength is close to but below the strength required to form a black hole, we argue that there will be a region close to the axis where the scalar curvature and field energy density can reach arbitrarily large levels, and which is visible to distant observers

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